LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Registan
MAY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
S.S. Registan, an auxiliary cruiser, was attacked and set on fire by four enemy aeroplanes, but the survivors were picked up by a motor boat from Sennen Cove and by...
S.S. Runnelstone
JANUARY 23RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 8.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and snow squalls. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 9.5 and at...
S.S. Sard
FEBRUARY 20TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 4.55 A.M. the Tara coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore in Knockinelder Bay, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6 A.M. A light south-easterly wind was blowing, with a...
Capt. F. Rolli Pointing Out to a B.B.C. Commentator the Rock Which His Ship, the S.S. Isabo, Struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly
Capt. F. Rolli pointing out to a B.B.C. commentator the rock which his ship, the s.s. Isabo, struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly. Miraculously, however, 32 of the crew of 38 were picked up despite high seas and fog.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Halizones
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—19th Octo- ber, 1939. A message was received that a British steamer, s.s. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched,...
S.S. Celerity
CROMER, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone having been received from Mundesley stating that the services of the Life-boat were required, on the 17th February, the Life-boat Benjamin Bond Cabbell was launched at 9 P.M. and found the s.s....
S.S. Barnhill
AUGUST 13TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At about 1.30 in the afternoon the Langney Point coastguard telephoned that seven men working on the wreck of the S.S. Barnhill should be taken off at once.
A strong S.W....
S.S. Moorwood
OCTOBER 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.50 in the morning, the naval authorities at Chatham telephoned the coxswain that the S.S. Moorwood had struck a wreck and was going to beach on the South- East Maplin Sands. She was a London...
S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
S.S. Ila
JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.
A second message from the...